Starz In Their Eyes

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To add salt to the wounds was the constant hounding from paparazzi and the press that thrust what can be a fatal spotlight streaming constant pressure and scrutiny on the shoulders of one person. Whilst they probably wish for some anonymity, we all dream of some recognition; whilst they dream of a simple life, we dream of the fast cars and the big houses.

I remember it taking Jay a long time to get the track to slow down and speed up to segue in and out this section. I’m just happy my most well known song has a real and enduring message, and a bit of timelessness in the production. What they don’t show on TV however is that these shows usually require video auditions and face-to-face off-camera auditions before people are even allowed onto the stage.What you’ve always considered a great dance tune suddenly has an entirely new inflection; a tale of a singer worried that they are moving closer to the label of ‘one hit wonder’, that their star is dying and that they still haven’t found the happiness they always craved. Tony then came up with the great drum groove, including the brilliantly simple but effective rising drum fill, and Adam recorded the three chords that are the meat of the song on top. I sang an approximation of what I thought the guitar riff should sound like and Adam embellished it and played it beautifully. Just Jack’s 'Starz in their Eyes' in this way is the predecessor for Mike Posner; the upbeat and catchy tune is topped by a cockney vocal that makes it such an entertaining listen – but there is so much more to it than that.

Jay Reynolds, who produced the whole of Overtones, then worked tirelessly, tweaking, editing, honing, even re-recording the drums, to get the best out of this tune.In the press she was being simultaneously lauded for winning the contest and derided for being ‘overweight’ and not what a ‘normal’ pop star should look like. The song itself depicts "flop stars" and the negative side to fame and explores the idea of others benefitting financially from the fame of celebrities. I was also generally angry with the smug and bloated fame machine as a whole, and how the ‘talent’ is often seen as an expendable piece of meat to be used by managers, labels and publicists until their sell-by-date runs out.

I know he just wanted it to sound as good as it could on the radio, and he must have cracked it because it became one of the top three radio airplay tunes of 2007.The dance classic is upbeat and fun with a catchy riff that is bound to pull people onto the dancefloor. The song "Starz in their Eyes" by Just Jack criticizes the culture of celebrity and the desire for fame. The whole song is a masterpiece filled with sentiments of the rise and fall of fame; the quick highs followed by the crushing lows.